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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly is the objective of a tax on ammunition?

All it would do is reduce the number of law abiding people going to the range to practice shooting or sportsman clearing nuisance deer.

Mass shooters and gang bangers don't care one bit. Ammunition is key to their thing. All you do is hurt the law abiding marginal buyers.

That all said, a punitive tax on ammunition would be rightly deemed unconstitutional.[/quote]

This is actually right. Ammo is not the problem. It's the guns themselves. This is not a problem that can be solved with taxes or insurance. I doubt liability laws would even work. We need sensible regulations that make people jump through a reasonable number of hurdles to get a gun license. There should be limits on the number of guns people can buy. Private sales should be severely restricted. [/quote]

Kindly provide a list of “hurdles” you consider reasonable.

Please list what you think would constitute “sensible” regulations.

Please specify what “severe” restrictions you advocate on private sale of firearms.

Please explain how a limit on the number of guns people can buy would operate, and how that would impact the criminal misuse of firearms.

Because all you’ve proposed so far are a bunch of empty generalities. [/quote]

Well, obviously you don't think there is such a thing as a reasonable gun regulation.

Hurdles:

1. 30-day period between purchase and delivery for a background check for every gun sold.

2. 40-hour course for ownership of a handgun or any gun with a magazine or more than three bullets.

3. Five-year renewable term for all gun licenses.

4. Ban on magazines with more than seven bullets - (excluding special circumstances such as demonstrated need for rodent or hog extermination.)

5. Limiting the number of guns a person can purchase in a given term - say 5 guns over a five year period would curtail strawman purchases of guns where someone buys 50 guns and then sells them privately to people who could not qualify for gun ownership. This is a leading conduit for guns ending up on the streets.

6. Ban private sales so the purchase of any gun must go through a third party that reports the sale to state and feds. (Again - aimed at curtailing guns ending up on the streets.)

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